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Xerox Phaser 8860 Review

jleupo — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 15:58:42 +0000

Would you go to a doctor that cheated his way through med school or recommended surgeries you didn’t need? Why should you settle for a color printer doctor that does the same thing? In Denver, considering the Xerox Phaser 8860 may just be the best thing you do for your printing healthcare. Here at Pahoda Image Products we recommend only what you actually need, and find the best custom fit whether or not it is the Xerox Phaser 8860 or a less expensive model. We assess your needs at no cost to you and then give you a bargain price that is nationally competitive right here in Denver. Our honest assessments take the guess work out of buying your printing needs while putting money back in your pocket. Switch your printer healthcare plan and save on the Xerox Phaser 8860 and supplies in Denver today with the professionals at Pahoda Image Products.

When to avoid the Xerox Phaser 8860:

When you are going to send the printed output through the mail (not inside an envelope)
When you are primarily printing color spreadsheets and need to write in the shaded areas with a pen
When you are mainly printing Black and White

Mailing and the Xerox Phaser 8860 or the Xerox Phaser 8560…

jleupo — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 04:54:55 +0000

The Xerox Phaser 8560 and Xerox Phaser 8860 is a Fragile Mailing Experience!

If you speak to a sales rep who sells the Xerox Phaser 8560 or the Xerox Phaser 8860 it will seem like this is the best printer in the history of mankind… if you are speaking to someone who sells another brand of color printer in Denver, it will be the worst printer in mankind! I guess this is how perspective works. We focus on what works for us. I suppose this is the benefit of being a multi-vendor company. We can see strengths and weaknesses and not freak out one way or the other. FYI — The Phaser 8560 and the Phaser 8860 are basically the same printer – just different supplies (bigger wax blocks in the Phaser 8860 and lower costs for the wax making it have a much lower cost per print) The Xerox Phaser 8560 is a wax technology. Think of it this way… 4 different colors of crayons are melted, shot through a printhead and pushed into the paper through some pressure. Now, the nice part is that even cheap paper looks like glossy paper since it is wax and not a traditional color laser printer. The disadvantage is this… Mail sorters. How does a mail sorter work? Basically seperation and then it goes through a reader. In order to read correctly it must go through individually. This requires pressure. The volume of mail requires speed. Speed and pressure basically equals heat. Heat melts wax… are you starting to see the issue? Now, other manufacturers will act as if you will have a clean piece of paper and candle wax in an envelope. It’s not that bad. There is simply some streaking that can occur. Before you decide to buy the Xerox Phaser 8560 or the Xerox Phaser 8860 color printer, just have some print samples run. If you never do mailers, don’t worry. If you do, it may still be OK, but you will want to test the runs so that you do not purchase a color printer that you’ll want to return. If you send us files, we’d be happy to print and mail you some samples. If you hear that the Xerox Phaser 8560 or the Xerox Phaser 8860 is awful, don’t worry, you are probably talking to someone who sells a competitor’s color box. If you hear no one ever had this problem, you are probably talking to a Xerox employee.

A Weird Way to Save Money on a Xerox 8860 Color Printer

jleupo — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 03:06:02 +0000

Xerox Phaser 8860 tricks

We had a customer who really liked how cheap color printing was on the Xerox Phaser 8860. They had low coverage, so a cost per print plan didn’t make a lot of sense. They had an idea on how to make prints cheaper, and I was skeptical until I ran the analytics. Their solution, print text in blue rather than black. We all know black and white prints are cheaper than color prints, so the blue text idea seemed weird. I ran their document, ran it through my color coverage analyzer, and the black page with 2 small pictures cost $.0247 per print. I changed the text color, that’s all, to dark blue and the cost went down to $.0226 per print. I then changed it to light blue and it went all the way down to $.0144 per print. Over a panny a print cheaper. How could this happen? With the Xerox Phaser 8860 you need to remember the color blocks of wax cost 1/3 what the black blocks cost. Essentially, if you used only cyan for your text, the prints would literally cost 1/3 what the black and white prints cost. If it doesn’t matter and you own a Xerox Phaser 8860 printer, use cyan! If you own ANY OTHER color printer on the market, this advice DOES NOT APPLY!!

Color Printer Rental in Denver

jleupo — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 00:58:17 +0000

Xerox Phaser 8860

Are you looking for a color printer, but don’t want to spend $2,000 right now to get a quality color printer? We have a Xerox Phaser 8860 available for rental right now, it’s brand new!! It would be just $245 per month for the printer and all of the supplies and maintenance you need to print 2,000 color pages a month! That’s less than $.125 a page regardless of coverage and including the equipment! What happens if you go over 2,o00 color prints? Perfect, it then is only $.06 per print!! If you do Real Estate color printing or just don’t want to have to but a color laser printer in Denver, please give us a call!

Xerox Phaser 8560 and Phaser 8860 Myths and Truths

jleupo — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 14:54:56 +0000

Xerox Phaser 8560 and Phaser 8860

I wanted to take a moment and help clarify some interesting facts and myths about the solid ink series of Xerox. Just to have full disclosure here, we do sell quite a few of these, but we also sell Ricoh, Lexmark, Okidata, Kyocera and HP color. Manufacturer’s love to sell fear. What they like to do is to make sure they make you afraid of what the other manufacturers are doing or maximize their competitor’s weaknesses while minimizing their own. This is prevalent when coming to the Phaser series of solid ink printers. What are some Myths and truths? If you leave prints made from a solid ink machine in your car, they will melt. — Little bit of both actually. We have left prints made from a Xerox 8560 in our car here in the middle of summer on 90 degree days and the prints did not melt. They did change color in the pictures and the ink obviously made its way deeper into the paper as you could see a reverse image easily on the back which normally you could not. It was not, however, like someone was melting a candle on the dashboard. We have also had a customer who makes books with the solid ink machine deal with some sticking together in the same test when it was in a book format. Bottom line — If your prints are going to have a ton of intensly heated, direct sun exposure… maybe a traditional laser would be a better fit for you. Solid ink is “better/worse” than laser printers — Myth I would call this a myth because color quality is subjective. We have lots of customers who think the Phaser 8560 or the Phaser 8860 are the best printers on the market and others who will not touch them. Really, if you are not sure of what sort of print quality these machines have, you really need to test them with your own file so you can compare. It is a very subjective thing. Similar to whether you like blondes or brunettes… there isn’t technically a correct answer, but people tend to have preferences. The Phaser 8560 / Phaser 8860 goes 30 pages per minute — BOTH Techically, the printer CAN go 30 pages a minute, in fast draft mode. The thing that generally happens is people print using pactorty defaults of “enhanced” and print at 20 pages per minute rather than 30 pages per minute. The Photo mode is only 10 pages per minute. The Phaser 8560 / Phaser 8860 should be shut off at night to conserve power — Myth Although you would technically save some power if you turned the machine off and on everyday, you would waste so much ink and money this would be a horrible decision. From a financial and green standpoint, you would be far better off leaving it on and then putting the printer into sleep mode. This is the way it was desigend. You would probably triple to quadrouple the cost of ownership if you turned it off and on every night. Hope this helps, and if you are looking for a Phaser 8560 or a Phaser 8860, please give us a call for a quote.